Test Bank for Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination 9th Edition | Questions and Answers
1. Which question would be considered a ―leading
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a. ―Please describe any associated symptoms with your headaches?‖
b. ―You don't get headaches often, do you?‖
c. ―What activities affect the severity of your headaches?‖
d. ―What times of the day are your headaches the most severe?‖
e. ―What worries you most about your headache?‖
SELECTED ANSWER:
B
This question would limit the information in the patient's selected answerwer. The other
choices allow the
patient more discretion about the extent of an selected answerwer.
TOPIC: Discipline: Behavioral Science MSC: Organ System: General
2. Which action would best promote accurate trselected answerlations as well as confidentiality
when the
caregiver does not speak the patient's language?
a. Ask a person unfamiliar with the patient to trselected answerlate.
b. Have a friend of the patient trselected answerlate.
c. Ask simple leading questions that the patient may understand.
d. Use a neighbor as trselected answerlator.
e. Involve the family with the trselected answerlation.
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SELECT
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ANSWE
R: A
When you do not speak the patient's language, family members or friends may pose a
communication barrier and may have issues of confidentiality; a stranger as an interpreter is
less biased.
TOPIC: Discipline: Behavioral Science MSC: Organ System: General
3. Periods of silence during the interview can serve important purposes, such as:
a. allowing the clinician to catch up on documentation.
b. giving you a clue that you should speed up the interview.
c. providing time for reflection.
d. increasing the length of the visit.
e. promoting a calm environment.
SELECTED ANSWER: C
Silence is a useful tool during interviews for the purposes of reflection, summoning of
courage, and displaying compassion. It is usually a clue for you to go slower and not to push
too hard.
TOPIC: Discipline: Behavioral Science MSC: Organ System: General
4. Which technique is most likely to result in the patient's understanding of questions?
a. Use phrases that are commonly used by other patients in the area.
b. Use the patient's own terms if possible.
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c. Use language that keeps the patient from being expselected answerive in his or her selected
answerwer.
d. Use proper medical and technical terminology.
e. Use the simplest language possible.
SELECTED ANSWER: B
To ensure that your questions have been correctly understood, be clear, and explicit while
using the patient's idiom and level of understanding.
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